Wind and waves batter Ivar’s deck
Published 11:19 pm Thursday, November 13, 2008
MUKILTEO — Heavy winds and rough waves pounded the Ivar’s Mukilteo Landing restaurant on Front Street on Thursday morning, buckling the waterfront restaurant’s deck.
Rough weather pushed up panels on the deck sometime between 5 and 7 a.m., said Kirsten Wlaschin, Ivar’s spokeswoman. A few employees were working in the kitchen prepping for the day and no diners were eating in the restaurant, she said.
The restaurant plans to be open as usual.
This isn’t the first time the waterfront restaurant has taken a beating. The restaurant was closed for more than a year after an October 2003 storm buckled the floor, broke windows and washed away most of the deck.
The company is calling in the same engineers who worked on the restaurant’s remodel. Wlaschin said Ivar’s took painstaking efforts during the remodel to reinforce the building.
Reporter Debra Smith: 425-339-3197 or dsmith@heraldnet.com.
